Save the date: Artmart on Saturday, October 3

Every year, PLG Arts organizes an all-day arts and crafts fair on Lincoln Road (between Flatbush and Ocean). It's usually a good day to walk around, meet artsy types, and hang out around the block. The Maple Street School also has its annual tag sale that day. If you've got any kids' clothes, toys, or books in decent condition, they're usually taking donations the week before the event (call 718.282.4345 for details).

PLG Arts is still accepting vendors for the fair. If you're an independent artist, designer, or crafts type and would like to have a table, the fee is $30. Info and a registration form here. While the organizers aren't looking for people to sell burgers or socks, booths offering unconventional wares or services are in some cases welcome. At one Artmart, a neighbor set up shop as a Professional Secret Keeper, offering to listen to customers' secrets while assuring their privacy, for free.

The now defunct PLG blog Across the Park has some photos from the first Artmart, in 2006, on flickr.